Toolmaking Art

Sadly, the ultimate tool box may be a five gallon plastic bucket. Hardly what one considers a timeless classic, but then again, I doubt future archeologists will consider them a rare find.
The main downside, is also an upside. There is no great appeal to the old pickle bucket. Just as the Japanese wooden [...]

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I broke a Japanese saw handle a while back, and I have been needing to remake it.

The old handle cracked out.  The saw itself is not so bad, but the handle was a lemon.    No problem here I like to remake handles.  This called [...]

Hand tool users online, often talk about the slope.   It is a reference to the constant pressing need for new tools.  It is really a fairly honest thing.
To start out making the simplest projects out of wood, you need to be able to cut wood and stick it together.   A saw, hammer or screwdriver, [...]

I recently acquired a new set of chisels and gouges and I needed to make a home for them.

This tool rack is a fairly simple composition.  It will hold 40 chisels,  so I have a little bit of room to grow.

I can see all the blades and I can remove the blade easily.  A pair [...]

Once you have things basically cut, you may still have to fine tune them.
Here I am starting to plane the edges clamped together.

This worked in some spots and one some sides, but there were some grain issues.  In this case I chickened out instantly and started using sandpaper.
Here is what I was trying to make.

The [...]